Emergency Hearts - For Jen Angel RIP (TOTR 447)

 -for Jen Angel (1-29-1975 to 2-9-2023) & all the friends, family, & movements who survive her 
-as always, the views on this show belong to the host & curator & not to the WTTU student management or Tennessee Tech
-aired on WTTU 88.5 FM The Nest on Saturday, February 18, 2023
-We begin with a reading of Jen’s obituary by Mark Zaborney from The Blade. 

Listen to the audio archive here:
https://soundcloud.com/teacherontheradio/emergency-hearts-for-jen-angel-rip-totr-447

Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic - from Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite
Sweet Honey In The Rock - We Are The Ones
Porterdavis - Come On In My Kitchen
The Decemberists - Don’t Carry It All
The Avett Brothers - True Sadness
Conversation with guest Chris Crass
Evan Greer - I Want Something
Evan Greer - Punk Rock Angel From Montgomery
Pagan Holiday - Hallelujah 
Fugazi - Blueprint
Screeching Weasel - A New Tomorrow 
NOFX - Johnny Appleseed
Fifteen - Lookin’ for Trouble 
Boom Boom Racoon - States and Nations 
Ramshackle Glory - Of Ballots & Barricades
Moon Bandits - Emergency Hearts 
The Window Smashing Job Creators - Utopian Spiel 
Kimya Dawson - Utopian Futures 
Grace Petrie - If There’s A Fire In Your Heart
Casey Neill - Sisters of the Road
Poison Girls - All The Way 
Nina Simone - Here Comes The Sun 
Thanks to Kristi, Jeff, & Lee for help with the playlist
Learn more about author/activist Chris Crass: http://www.chriscrass.org

Banging Breakdown (TOTR 446)

 

A program in the spirit of Alan Lomax & Black History Month.
 Special guest Nathan Salsburg.

The Association for Cultural Equity
Music | Nathan Salsburg (bandcamp.com)

Originally aired on Saturday, February 11, 2023 on WTTU 

Listen to the LIVE audio archive here:
Stream episode Banging Breakdown - TOTR 446 by Teacher On The Radio podcast | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

Alan Lomax - My Little John Henry
Nathan Salsburg & Bonnie Prince Billy - Unlearning Chant
Hobart Smith - Banging Breakdown 
Memphis Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson II, & Big Bill Broonzy - I Could Hear My Name A Ringin'
Lead Belly - Alabama Bound
From Alan Lomax’s Negro Prison And Blues Songs
Little Red, Tangle Eye, & Hard Hair - Early in the Mornin'
Alex - Prison Blues
Bama - Levee Camp Holler
R.C. Crenshaw - I'm Going Home on the Mornin' Train
Son House - Downhearted Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Jesus 
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Lord Have Mercy 
Johnny Lee Moore - Levee Camp Holler
Jesus Is Real to Me
Bessie Jones - Hambone
Bessie Jones & Georgia Sea Island Singers - Before This Time Another Year
Bessie Jones - Get in Union
Bessie Jones - This Train is a Clean Train
Rev. Gary Davis - I Belong To The Band-Hallelujah!
Union Choir of the Church of God and Saints of Christ - None But the Righteous 
Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - When I Lay My Burden Down
Henry Morrison & Saint Simon's Island Singers - I'm Gonna Sail Like a Ship on the Ocean
James Shorty & Viola James - This Little Light of Mine
James Shorty & Viola James - Jesus on the Main Line

People Got To Be Free (TOTR 445)

 

[photo - Andrew Smith the Teacher On The Radio, his mom Barb Smith, and today's guest interviewee Tom Savage, from the October 2022 NAACP banquet]

Originally aired on Saturday, February 4, 2023 on WTTU 
Listen to the audio archive here:
https://soundcloud.com/teacherontheradio/people-got-to-be-free-totr-445

Keb' Mo' - People Got to Be Free
Interview with Tom Savage, Cookeville NAACP
Stevie Wonder - Love's In Need Of Love Today
Fantastic Negrito- Highest Bidder 
Sunny War - No Reason
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall
Boogie Down Productions - Who Protects Us From You?
Tré Burt - Under the Devil's Knee
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
Cynthia Erivo - Stand Up
Moby & Gregory Porter & Amythyst Kiah - Natural Blues
Ondara - Mr. Landlord
Miko Marks & The Resurrectors - Lay Your Burdens Down
The 1865 - Buckshot
Bad Brains - Stay Close to Me
Dropkick Murphys - We Shall Overcome
Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body
Our Native Daughters- Black Myself
Resistance Revival Chorus & Rhiannon Giddens - All You Fascists Bound To Lose
Sweet Honey In The Rock- Ella's Song
The Staple Singers - Everyday People

Let's Go (TOTR 444)

 

Originally aired on Saturday, January 28, 2023 on WTTU 

Listen to the audio archive here:
https://soundcloud.com/teacherontheradio/lets-go-totr-444

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
David Crosby - Tamalpais High (At About 3)
David Crosby - Laughing 
The Feelies - Let's Go
Guadalcanal Diary - Litany (Life Goes On)
Pylon - Crazy
Drivin N Cryin - With The People
Drivin N Cryin - Let's Go Dancing
Arrogance - Sunday Feeling
R.E.M. - Harborcoat
Let's Active - Waters Part
Camper Van Beethoven - One of These Days
Game Theory - If and When It Falls Apart
Miracle Legion - All for the Best
Dreams So Real - Bearing Witness
The Bongos - The Bulrushes
Blue Rodeo - Rebel
The Grapes Of Wrath - I Am Here
Dumptruck - 50 Miles
The dB's - White Train
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
The Cleaners From Venus - Please Don't Step on My Rainbow
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?
The Reivers- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
the Windbreakers - Do Not Be Afraid

Been To The Mountain (TOTR 443)

 

Originally aired on Saturday, January 21, 2023 on WTTU 

Listen to the audio archive here:
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Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - What a Beautiful City

Ruthie Foster - Feels Like Freedom

Shemekia Copeland - Fried Catfish And Bibles

Margo Price - Been To The Mountain

Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs with Margo Price - State Of Mind

The Heavy Heavy - All My Dreams

Mr. Sam & the People People - Get Up Early

Cosmic Guilt - Cosmic Guilt

The Mars Volta - Vigil

Wild Pink - ILYSM

Wrest - End All the Days

Animal Collective - We Go Back

The Smile - We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings

Brett Dennen - This Is Going To Be The Year

Caamp - The Otter

Old Crow Medicine Show - New Mississippi Flag

Zach Bryan - Corinthians (Proctor's)

Justin Hiltner - 1992

Nicki Bluhm & A.J. Croce - Love To Spare

The Brother Brothers - Feelin' Good Again 

40 Watt Sun - Closure

John Van Deusen - Boring

Gungor & Nathan Greaux - Hey Na Na (Rejoice)

U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) - Songs Of Surrender

The Robots Are Coming (poem)

 Listen to a reading of this poem:
https://youtu.be/3orCGfc8--A

The robots are coming 

You have heard it 

& it is true

the robots are coming

just yesterday I was 

texting with a poet but 

I was on my way to the gym

just to walk & get my heart rate up &

endorphins going & as I put

my phone in my pocket

the robot in my pocket

butt-texted the poet

something crazy & then 

the poet had to explain what 

he really meant but then I said

I didn’t send that last text

the robot in my pocket did

because the robots are coming

even for the poets & we are

so fucked now that the robots are here

The robots are coming to take my job

Apparently not your job

Yet the robots are coming 

to take my job & honestly

even with all the scifi dystopia

we didn’t see that one coming

The robots are writing the papers

for the students & the robots invented

the program to check to see if the 

students really wrote the paper or

if the robot did & the robot can write

comments on the paper that the

student-prompted robot wrote & here we are

Get rid of the middle man

Get rid of me

Your robot can talk to my 

Robot because I would rather

not deal with grading papers 

right now but I would like to 

deal with this robot in my phone

Did I tell you about the robot

in my phone it is amazing

It has access to every song

ever recorded since the beginning

of forever & it has been paying 

attention to what I listen to 

so the robot knows

That is right I said it 

the robot knows what song

I want to listen to before I listen to it

& it has every song in my phone

every song since the beginning of 

forever & this is my happy robot

I will pay for my relationship

with this song calling robot 

But I don’t pay the person who

made the song who wrote the 

song who played the song who

recorded the song no because just

like me they are really scraping by

but I will pay the robot who has the 

song & who told me to listen to the 

song because that makes me happy

but now that I have no job

i have not yet figured out yet

how to pay the robot who found the song

the robot in my pocket is like 15 dollars

per month or some such thing I don’t 

remember how much because that is 

on automatic debit & I have a job 

or at least I used to have a job

does the robot who grades the papers

for me get to listen to the song the 

robot chooses for me how does it

work now that I cannot pay the robot

The robot I love who will find 

the songs that make me happy

the robots are coming with art too they

are really amazing these robot artists

they make these portraits of me that look

like me well kind of but more handsome

& with visual superpowers & yes that

artistic robot lives in my pocket too &

it also charges by the month to make 

me look amazing on social media

which I think is still free because of the

ads or something or maybe because 

of the robot spies from the CIA FBI NSA

who can see what I post which lately 

I have been posting about the robots 

I have been posting for us to calm down

because the robots are not really that bad 

what are you some conspiracy theorist 

the robots are not really taking over 

I am just the one typing on the machine 

that makes me happy the poem about 

the robots it isn’t true at all 

I am just making it up

then somebody said wait the robots they 

can write poems too now that is too

much a robot poem but I tried it just once

I told the robot to write a poem & get this mess

the robot poem it just had to rhyme

man they need to get out more that robot

should go to more poetry readings drink more coffee

do more drugs break more hearts really

have something traumatic & terrible happen 

to that robot so it can write better poems

the robots are coming the robots are here

just as I was finishing this poem i was going

to even let the robot write a few lines to 

prove my point but when I went to log on 

it said “we are at capacity” & the robot 

was not there to meet my poetry needs 

guess I will just have to finish the damn poem

about robots all by myself 

about the robots

who are not here yet 

to take over my life

even if I want them to 

One Day (TOTR 442)

 

Originally aired on Saturday, January 14, 2023 on WTTU 

Listen to the audio archive here:
https://soundcloud.com/teacherontheradio/totr-442

Justin Townes Earle - Workin' For The MTA
Steve Earle - Last Words
Ke Kula ʻo Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu Public Charter School Students - Ua Ao Hawai’i  
The Rose Ensemble - Hawai'i Aloha
Eddie Suzuki - High Tide 
Denny Guy - Say You'll Be With Me
Hapa - Ka Uluwehi O Ke Kai 
Halau Ku Mana Public Charter School Students & Natural Vibrations - Better World
Trevor Hall - O Haleakala
Hapa - One Day
Merrell Fankhauser - Garden In The Rain
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Mahalla
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
Cast of Rent - Seasons of Love
Cast of Almost Famous - Everybody's Coming Together
Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air
Black Pumas - Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles - Love You To
Junior Parker - Tomorrow Never Knows
The HU - Mother Nature
Tengger Cavalry - Hymn of the Wolf
Zergananda - The Path to Valhalla
Brewer & Shipley - Witchi-Tai-To
Ali Lizzi & Michael Shlofmitz - We Are One in Harmony